Recognition by U.S. and other Western nations could unlock billions of dollars in frozen Libyan funds

Rebel leaders won recognition as the legitimate government of Libya from the United States and other world powers on Friday in a major boost to the rebels' faltering campaign to oust Muammer Gadhafi.

Western nations said they also planned to increase the military pressure on Gadhafi's forces to press him to give up power after 41 years at the head of the North African state.

Recognition of the rebels, announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a meeting in Turkey of the international contact group on Libya, is an important diplomatic step which could unlock billions of dollars in frozen Libyan funds.

Rebels a legitimate government??? They are really reaching here. Trying to get Ghadaffi’s money into the hands of terrorists??? or maybe the terrorist of their choice: out of terrorist Ghadaffi’s hands into another.

This sounds to me like an incredibly horrible idea. . . which is just about standard for that bunch in DC right now.

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posted on 07/15/2011 12:19:47 PM PDT
by RatRipper
(I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)

The rebels were running out of everything, as told by their defacto leader. Fuel, food, ammunition, absolutely everything. Now, we can give them money, supposed frozen Libyan funds(i’d like proof) so they can buy everything they need. This administration is so unbelievably corrupt, it is horrifying. Any and everyone that voted for that moron should throw themselves in front of a bus.

It looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Its not an effing platypus.

Yesiree Tiger. Obama is indeed a liberal fascist, something we have been yelling out here on FR for over 3 years, after we saw his “work” in Kenya in 2006/2007 which resulted in 7000 genocidal deaths, and now add to those the unecessarry deaths in Libya from Obama’s little ideological venture there to support the Muslim Brotherhood.Badaboom!

Yes, it’s like this everyday now.
I flipped when I heard this, because I have said all along Qaddafi will not budge. His government is strong and the “rebels” are weak.
This Arab Spring stuff overestimates itself and its capabilities.
However, we are supposed to have checks and balances in our govt to stop usama and the evil witch from aiding and abetting. It’s long past impeachment time, imo.

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